Today there are twelve principal Hasidic courts, though many of the smaller ones still exist. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was a community of Orthodox, but increasingly westernized, Jews from Germany ...

An outsider visiting a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn is likely to be struck immediately by just how Hasidic it looks. The Hasidic parts of Crown Heights, Williamsburg, and Boro Park are lively ...

Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom is the oldest Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn and the ... Hasidic and pre-gentrification Williamsburg. Ruiz said members of the Hasidic community have expressed interest ...

That has been her go-to since she was a kid growing up Hasidic in Williamsburg ... recounts her upbringing in this insular, religious community and culminates with her coming out as a transgender ...

Three more in Brooklyn — Borough Park ... Mask wearing is not consistent. In Williamsburg, home to the Satmar Hasidic community, mask wearing on the street is rare. “ ...

(JTA) — A Brooklyn rabbi is under investigation ... who runs Yeshiva Tiferes Hatorah in the Williamsburg neighborhood as well as a community in upstate Liberty, where many of the young couples ...

Jake Offenhartz, a New York reporter with experience covering Brooklyn’s Hasidic community, quickly pulled together a story on what little police and the synagogue’s leaders would say, but big ...